Turkey accuses Dutch of Srebrenica massacre

President Recep Erdogan steps up rhetoric and bars Dutch ambassador from returning to Ankara

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will run for re-election in votes next year
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Turkey's political spat with the Netherlands deepened today after President Recep Erdogan accused the Dutch of the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II.

"We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massacre of 8,000 Bosnians there," he said in a televised speech.

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